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SPLIT A
Tammet’s banged his head on wall
UNIT 1 childhood epileptic fit
took medication —had to visit
VOCABULARY hospital regularly
2, page 5 loved counting + doing math
problems
1. estimate 7. predictable teased at school
2. compensate 8. interaction Tammet today works as math tutor
3. retain 9. astonishing lives with parents
4. anxious 10. savant hangs out with friends on the
5. flexible 11. benefit church quiz team
6. disabled 12. image
MAIN IDEAS
TAKE NOTES, page 6 2, page 10
1. b 4. c
Main Ideas Details 2. c 5. b
Tammet is good started after epileptic fit at 3. a 6. b
at math and age 3
counting. obsessed with counting—even DETAILS, page 11
counts stitches
figures out cube roots quickly MATH Daniel can ability
sees numbers as shapes calculate cube
colors and textures roots faster than a
calculator.
Tammet is an extraordinary mental abilities
autistic savant. most struggle with language— Daniel can multiply ability
not Daniel 377 × 795 in his
created own language head.
speaks 8 languages Daniel doesn’t disability
incredible memory go to the beach
Tammet is can’t: because there are
technically - make eye contact too many pebbles
disabled. - go to beach b/c must count to count.
stones The thought of disability
- drive a mathematical
- tell right from left problem with
- work 9−5 no solution
- supermarket is challenging makes Daniel
- must retain sense of uncomfortable.
control—do things in a LANGUAGE Daniel has ability
certain order invented his own
Met Kim Peek share: language.
- love of books Daniel is able to ability
- love of dates read a lot of books.
- learned “everybody is Daniel speaks ability
different” seven languages.

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MEMORY Daniel can recall pi ability 2. Answers may vary. Suggested answers:
to 22,514 decimal 1. For years, I have preached the importance of
points. hard work, determination, persistence, and
practice—make that perfect practice—as
Daniel can easily ability
key ingredients of success. A nifty new book
remember key
seems to support my theory.
dates in history.
2. Malcolm Gladwell has written a fascinating
SOCIAL Daniel feels disability study, Outliers: The Story of Success (Little,
INTERACTION uncomfortable in Brown & Co.), which should make a lot of
the supermarket. people feel much better about not achieving
It is hard for Daniel disability instant success. In fact, he says it takes about
to socialize with 10 years, or 10,000 hours, of practice to
anyone outside his attain true expertise.
family. 3. “The people at the very top don’t just work
Daniel has trouble disability harder or even much harder than everyone
making eye else,” Gladwell writes. “They work much,
contact. much harder.” Achievement, he says, is talent
NEED FOR Daniel must drink disability plus preparation. Preparation seems to play a
ORDER his tea at exactly bigger role.
the same time 4. For example, he describes the Beatles: They
every day. had been together seven years before their
Daniel always has disability famous arrival in America. They spent a lot
to brush his teeth of time playing in strip clubs in Hamburg,
before he showers. Germany, sometimes for as long as eight
hours a night. Overnight sensation? Not
MAKE INFERENCES, page 12 exactly. Estimates are the band performed
1,200 times before their big success in 1964.
Answers may vary. Suggested answers:
By comparison, most bands don’t perform
1. Others didn’t think that Daniel was a normal 1,200 times in their careers.
person. They viewed him as some sort of 5. Neurologist Daniel Levitin has studied the
oddity. formula for success extensively and shares
2. Others think that only people who are this finding: “The emerging picture from
handicapped or have disabilities are different. such studies is that 10,000 hours of practice
3. Other people probably think that numbers is required to achieve the level of mastery
cannot be your friends since they are not alive. associated with being a world-class expert in
4. Other people probably assume that Daniel’s anything. In study after study of composers,
relationship to numbers is strange. basketball players, fiction writers, ice skaters,
5. Other people might expect Daniel to be able concert pianists, chess players, master
to follow a schedule. criminals, and what have you, the number
comes up again and again. Of course, this
NOTE-TAKING SKILL, page 15 doesn’t address why some people get more
1. “The people at the very top don’t just work out of their practice sessions than others
harder or even much harder than everyone do. But no one has yet found a case in which
else,” Gladwell writes. “They work much, much true world-class expertise was accomplished
harder.” “Achievement,” he says, “is talent plus in less time. It seems it takes the brain this
preparation.” Preparation seems to play a long to assimilate all that it needs to know to
bigger role. achieve true mastery.”

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6. Two computer giants, Bill Joy, who co- level of mastery associated with being a world-
founded Sun Microsystems, and Bill Gates, class expert in anything.
co-founder of Microsoft, also were proof of 4. Levitin believes success takes so long to
the 10,000-hour theory. achieve because it seems it takes the brain this
7. As Gladwell puts it, “Practice isn’t the thing long to assimilate all that it needs to know to
you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do achieve true mastery.
that makes you good.”
8. Consider these thoughts from successful READING SKILL
folks in all walks of life: 2, page 16
9. • “No one can arrive from being talented 1. “I memorized pi to 22,514 decimal places,
alone. God gives talent; work transforms and I am technically disabled. I just wanted
talent into genius.”—Anna Pavlova, to show people that disability needn’t get in
ballerina. the way.”
10. • “I know the price of success: dedication, 2. “There’s too much mental stimulus. I have
hard work and an unremitting devotion to to look at every shape and texture. Every
the things you want to see happen.”—Frank price and every arrangement of fruit and
Lloyd Wright, architect. vegetables. So instead of thinking, ‘What
11. • “The way to learn to do things is to do cheese do I want this week?’, I’m just really
things. The way to learn a trade is to work uncomfortable.”
at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin 3. “We shared so much—our love of key dates
with the determination to succeed, and the from history, for instance. And our love of
work is half done already.”—Mark Twain, books. . . . I’ve read more books than anyone
writer and humorist. else I know, so I was delighted when Kim
12. Do you detect a theme here? wanted to meet in a library.” “He is such a
13. The abilities these people possessed were lovely man,” “Kim says, ‘You don’t have to be
far-ranging, yet the formula for success was handicapped to be different—everybody’s
the same: hard work and lots of it. I don’t different.’ And he’s right.”
know anyone who has succeeded any other 4. “When I looked at the numbers I ‘saw’ images.
way. Some people just make it look easy. Of It felt like a place I could go where I really
course, you probably didn’t see the first 9,999 belonged.”
hours of hard work. And you don’t just have
to work hard; you have to work smart, too. CONNECT THE READINGS
14. Mackay’s Moral: Some people dream ORGANIZE, page 18
about success, and others wake up and do
R1: “Genius” may be the result of brain chemistry
something about it.
(para 4); Special talents can also cause problems
COMPREHENSION, page 15 (paras 7−8); A person can be a genius and also be
disabled (para1)
1. According to Gladwell, achievement is talent
Both: “Genius” is being studied by scientists R1,
plus preparation. Preparation seems to play a
para 4; R2, para 4)
bigger role.
R2: People at the top (experts) work harder than
2. The Beatles were different from most other
other people (para 3); Genius = talent + hard work
bands because they worked harder and had
(para 9); Expertise requires a lot of practice (paras
more preparation.
5 & 13)
3. Daniel Levitin says about success that 10,000
hours of practice is required to achieve the

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REVIEW, page 19 3. According to Gladwell, it requires at least

1. interaction 7. benefit 10,000 hours to transform talent into
2. assimilate 8. emerging expertise.
3. astonishing 9. anxious 4. A lack of structure can make Daniel Tammet
4. transform 10. compensate anxious.
5. predictable 11. disabled 5. Social interaction is difficult for many people
6. expertise Bonus Word: persistence with ASD.
6. Brain scans of autistic savants suggest the
EXPAND right hemisphere might compensate for
1, page 20 damage to the left.
7. Autistic savants can usually retain large
Noun Verb Adjective Adverb amounts of information without a problem.
prediction predict predictable predictably 8. Daniel Tammet memorized pi to 22,514
estimate estimate estimated X decimal places to show people that, although
astonishment astonish 1. astonishing astonishingly he technically has a disability, it doesn’t stop
2. astonished
him from being successful.
anxiety X anxious anxiously
flexibility flex flexible flexibly GRAMMAR
interaction interact interactive interactively
1, page 22
transformation transform 1. transformable X
a. He had his first seizure.
2. transformative X
b. Yes.
3. transformed
c. His living with a family in France
retainment retain retainable X
d. The past perfect tense, before, when, by the
benefit benefit beneficial X
time, already, just
disability disable disabled X
1. expertise X expert expertly
2, page 24
2. expert
assimilation assimilate assimilated X
1. 2,1 5. 1,2 9. 2,1
2. 2,1 6. 2,1 10. 2,1
emergence emerge emerging X
3. 2,1 7. 1,2
persistence persist persistent persistently
4. 1,2 8. 2,1
compensation compensate X

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1. transformative 6. anxiety
2. flexibility 7. estimate 2. he had already started secondary school.
3. predictable 8. compensation 3. Daniel had started school.
4. persist 9. interaction 4. he had already published his memoir, Born on
5. expertise 10. emerge a Blue Day.
5. he had broken the record for memorizing pi.
CREATE, page 21 6. Answers may vary.
Answers may vary. Suggested answers: 7. Answers may vary.
8. Answers may vary.
1. Because I know Daniel Tammet well, how
9. Answers may vary.
he will react in certain situations is very
predictable.
2. Many people who suffer from ASD are not
flexible.

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WRITE 6. The book that Kim Peek was reading before he

1, page 27 met Daniel Tammet at the library was about
autistic savants throughout history.
1. Autistic savants
7. Many competitors prepare by practicing as much
2. Autistic savants have specific abilities or skills,
as 10 hours a day before the math competition.
and they have certain limitations in other
areas of life.
3. All sentences relate to the ideas in the topic UNIT 2
sentence by explaining and giving examples to VOCABULARY
illustrate
2, page 35
2, page 28 1. misery 7. humiliated
1. b 2. meager 8. poverty
2. a 3. shame 9. abandoned
3. c 4. defeated 10. hopelessness
5. yearned for 11. curious
3, page 28 6. tormented
Answers may vary. Suggested answers:
PREVIEW, page 35
1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was considered a 1. Suggested answer: He found a place to live
genius because of his many musical talents and started a new life in America. He went to
and abilities. school to study teaching.
2. Scientists debate the question of nature 2. Suggested answer: He was probably nervous
versus nurture and the role that each play in because it was his first teaching job and one
human development. of the students was misbehaving. He also may
3. Malcolm Gladwell is a talented author who has have still been nervous about being new to
published a number of non-fiction bestsellers. America.
3. Answers will vary: The student threw a
REVISE sandwich at another student. McCourt might
1, page 29 yell, send the student to the principal’s office,
b call his parents.

2, page 30 TAKE NOTES, page 35

1. F 5. F
Main Ideas Details
2. C 6. F
3. F 7. F Frank McCourt— 1958—McKee Voc.Tech. HS
1st day teaching recent NYU grad—English
4. C 8. C
nervous—knows he must
3, page 30 control class
Answers may vary. Suggested answers: 30 years working Unconventional teacher
@ HSs in NYC
1. Autistic savants have many extraordinary skills
McCourt’s Deprived childhood food
and abilities.
childhood (Teacher not wasted
3. Before Daniel received his counting book
Man) Poverty, hardship
when he was four years old, he had shown no
Parent moved from Ireland
interest in mathematics.
to NYC
5. Because Dr. Levitin says that at least 10,000
• Little money
hours of practice are needed to achieve
• Sibling dies
success, many people never reach success.

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Return to Ireland MAIN IDEAS

• Cold 2, page 39
• Hungry
1930 Frank McCourt born in Brooklyn,
• Sick
New York.
• More siblings die
• Mother, Angela depressed 1934 Sister Margaret dies, and Frank
• Father abandons family McCourt’s family returned to Ireland.
McCourt is Inquisitive/curious 1949 Frank McCourt returned to New York.
determined to Mikey = friend with books 1951 He is drafted into Army and goes to
succeed Typhoid fever reads 3½ Korean War.
months in hospital 1958 He gets first teaching job, at McKee.
Interest in writing 1972 He starts teaching at elite Stuyvesant HS.
• Reads & writes for 1996 He publishes Angela’s Ashes.
neighbors to make money
2009 He dies.
• Saves money buys
ticket to NYC DETAILS, page 39
NYC 1949 No HS degree menial jobs Answers may vary. Suggested answers:
(janitor)
Army—Korean Exposure to professional life 1934 Event: Sister The McCourts wanted a
War 1951 • Clerk Margaret dies, and better life, so they returned
• Decides to be teacher Frank McCourt’s to Ireland. Irish family
Back in NYC Graduates from NYU family returns to didn’t welcome them. Their
• Still working menial jobs Ireland. life was still very hard. Two
• Low self-esteem other children died. The
Decides to start Uses stories of his family remained very poor
teaching childhood to get students and very hungry. Father
attention abandoned the family.
Unconventional 1949 Event: McCourt does menial jobs.
Taught at McKee and 5 Frank returns to
other NYC HSs NYC
Stuyvesant HS Elite 1951 Event: He sends money home to
1972 Known as best teacher for Drafted into Army mom. He decides he wants
writers—“dance your dance, and goes to Korean to be a teacher.
tell your tale” War
Angela’s Ashes Retires 1958 Event: He is an inexperienced,
Follows his own advice First teaching job, at unconventional teacher.
Tells childhood story McKee
2 more memoirs and a film 1972 Event: He becomes one of the
follows Starts teaching at most popular teachers.
McCourt dies Melanoma elite Stuyvesant HS Aspiring writers are urged
2009 Moving tributes to take his class.
• Friends 1996 Event: It describes his childhood.
• Family Publishes Angela’s It becomes a runaway
• Students Ashes bestseller. It wins the
• Fans Pulitzer and the National
NYC HS named after him Book Critics Circle Awards.

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2009 Event: His ashes are scattered ORGANIZE, page 47

McCourt dies in Limerick. A NYC HS is FRANK MCCOURT (R1)
named for him. 1. poverty, abandonment, having to move from
country to country, lack of education, shame,
MAKE INFERENCES, page 40 little food, wet conditions
1. (the situation) is not as simple as it seems 2. Parents, Mikey Molloy, and Mikey’s father, his
to be students, co-worker in the shipyard
2. remember 3. unconventional approach, curiosity,
3. refusing someone’s request or telling them inquisitiveness, fondness for words, humor
to leave 4. writing, teaching
4. manage with difficulty to live
5. to become successful MARLA RUNYAN (R2)
6. realized or understood 1. blindness, doing schoolwork
7. to think you are more important than you 2. mother
really are 3. self-reliance, pride, feeling accountable for her
8. had exactly the right qualities for a particular success, not asking for special treatment
role, task, or job 4. teaching, public speaking, coaching, writing,
9. share your thoughts becoming an athlete
10. surprised
11. to have more than one set of responsibilities REVIEW, page 48
Answers may vary. Suggested answers:
NOTE-TAKING SKILL, page 44
Answers may vary. Suggested answers: Facing and Dealing with Overcoming
obstacle an obstacle an obstacle
Paragraph 4: What exactly does Marla see?
abandoned accountable defeated
Paragraph 7: What did specialists tell Marla when
defeated curious exalted
she was a child?
hopelessness inquisitive free
Paragraph 8 and 9: How did Marla’s mother help
humiliated laborious pride
her?
give up self-reliance
Paragraph 12: As an adult, what were Marla’s
meager struggle
strengths and weaknesses?
misery yearning for
Paragraph 24: How does Marla feel about
poverty
inspiring others?
shame
COMPREHENSION, page 44 tormented

1. a, b 4. b, c EXPAND, page 49
2. a, c 5. a, b
1. synonym/c 6. synonym/a
3. a, b
2. antonym /a 7. antonym/b
3. synonym/c 8. antonym/a
READING SKILL
4. antonym/b 9. synonym/c
2, pages 46 5. synonym/b
1. indistinct shapes 5. mercy
2. given 6. extremely difficult GRAMMAR
3. complete 7. someone else’s fault 1, page 50
4. felt free
1. teaching
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3. reading kayaking, was born with a serious disability.

4. the base form of the verb + ing He had clubfoot: his toes pointed inward,
5. to give up and as a result, he could not walk easily.
6. New York University, to enroll Even after a series of operations, he still had
7. to write limited mobility. Even so, Greg was never
8. to inspire defeated. First, he taught himself to walk, and
9. to + the base form of the verb even to run. Then, he competed on his high
school running team. He knew, though, he
2, page 52 would never become an Olympic runner, so
a. Doing, 1 f. to be defined, 4a he looked for other sports that he could play.
b. to run, 6 g. to write, 5 Happily, he discovered kayaking, a perfect
c. not going, 2 h. Recounting, 1 sport for him because it required minimal
d. to compete, 5 i. writing, 3 leg and foot muscles. Using his upper body
e. to describe, 4c j. to write, 4b strength, he was able to master the sport.
Finally, after many years of training and
3, page 52 perseverance, Greg made the 1984 Olympic
Answers may vary. Suggested answers: team.
These sentences tell how Greg Barton
1. After his mother died, McCourt felt free to
overcame his obstacles and benefited by
write his memoirs.
overcoming them.
2. Marla needs to train many months for a
4. The concluding sentence is: In short, even
marathon.
though that road was paved with obstacles, he
3. McCourt persuaded Mikey to lend him a book.
was able to overcome them and achieve the
4. Marla enjoys inspiring others.
impossible.
5. McCourt’s mother worried about feeding her
It summarizes the paragraph.
children.
6. The boy’s mother decided to let him REVISE
skateboard.
2, page 57
7. McCourt’s coworker urged him to become a
teacher. 1. a, b
8. It is hard for Marla to see the words on a 2. a, b
computer screen. 3. a, c
9. McCourt recalled eating his mother’s 4. a, c
breakfast.
2, pages 58
10. Marla was able to graduate from college with
a master’s degree. 1. Cross out: Her mother could her and speak.
Explanation: The sentence forces on her
WRITE mother’s abilities, not Helen’s frustrations.
1, pages 55 2. Cross out: In addition, Marla has become a
bestselling author.
Answers may vary. Suggested answers:
Explanation: This sentence does not focus on
1. Overcoming obstacles is the topic. It is in the
how sports liberated them.
first and third sentences.
3. Cross out: Furthermore, he lived in England.
2. The controlling idea is: the world is full of
Explanation: The sentence focuses on where
people who have overcome obstacles and
Steven Hawking lived, not on overcoming
benefited from overcoming them.
obstacles.
3. Underline: For example, Greg Barton, the
1984, 1988, and 1992 U.S. Olympic medalist in

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UNIT 3 MAIN IDEAS

VOCABULARY 2, page 66
2, page 63 Answers may vary. Suggested answers:
1. risk factor 7. consensus
Positive Negative
2. impact 8. advocate
3. potential 9. interpreting I. Can revolutionize I. Emotional and
4. environment 10. reliable medicine Physical Impact
5. interaction 11. linked a. Can prevent a. Positive result can
6. aspects 12. revolutionized diseases rather be shattering for
than just treat patient and family.
TAKE NOTES, page 64 them
Main Ideas Details b. Quality of life is b. Positive result
better can lead to
Genetic testing for Kristen and Nate’s mom
risky, unhealthy
neurodegenerative had Huntington’s
decisions.
disease—like Kristen wants test, Nate—
Huntington’s unsure II. Information is II. Invasion of Privacy
empowering for
Researchers Genetic testing could
patient
identified genes revolutionize medicine
that play roles in a. Can change a. May threaten
diseases lifestyle employment and
b. Can choose insurance
Kristen has Brother
support Father appropriate
Social media treatment plan
Nicola Powers, Symptoms III. Results are not
Kristen’s mom, Learned she inherited it always reliable
diagnosed with from her dad IV. Professional
Huntington’s in Kristen wants test so she interpretation is not
2003 can decide about having required.
children a. Patient may
Emotional impact Some people want to know interpret test
of genetic testing Others don’t results incorrectly.
Not all tests are Some test for one gene, b. There are other
equal others for multiple genes risk factors in
Price—tests from internet addition to genes.
are cheap, but unreliable. . .
others are very expensive DETAILS, pages 67
Interpretation—with or 1. h 5. b 9. g
without help of medical 2. k 6. j 10. i
professional 3. e 7. d 11. f
Ethical issues What if test reveals 4. a 8. c
incidental potential
disease?

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MAKE INFERENCES, page 68 COMPREHENSION, page 72

Answers may vary. Suggested answers: Answers may vary. Suggested answers:
Nate, Kristen’s brother: Neutral 1. He was diagnosed with a very serious form of
Kristen’s father: Very Strong arthritis. He decided to fight the disease.
Brenda Finucane: Neutral 2. If negative emotions bring negative changes
Robert Green: Strong to the body, positive emotions should bring
Betsy Bank Saul: Weak positive changes. Laughter has a positive
Ardis Dee Hoven: Strong therapeutic value.
David Agus: Very Strong 3. Watching funny movies and reading funny
books are examples of Laughter Therapy.
4. He was able to overcome his disease.

READING SKILL
2, page 73
Sometime before the summer of 1964: Cousins
NOTE-TAKING SKILL read the work of organic chemist Hans Selye, The
page 71 Stress of Life.

Watched
Concentrated Sleep more
Decided to comedies
on positive
put himself Able to walk
emotions/ Complete
in situation Read funny Pain begins
laughter recovery
that would books to decrease Return to
therapy (+
elicit positive work
medical Other similar Body
emotions
treatment) activities chemistry
improves

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Summer 1964: Cousins became ill. 2, page 76

Later in the summer of 1964: Cousins was 1. interaction 5. alternative
diagnosed with a severe form of arthritis and 2. interpret 6. elicit
started his Laughter Therapy program. 3. treatment 7. diagnosis
8 days later: Cousins’ pain decreased, he was 4. disagreement
able to sleep better, and his body chemistry
improved. GRAMMAR
A few months later: Cousins was able to walk 1, page 77
using a brace.
1. Y/Y
Soon after that: Cousins was able to return to
2. N/N
work.
3. Y/Y
A few years later: Cousins reached full recovery.
1990: Cousins died.
2, page 78
ORGANIZE, page 74 1. Y/Y 5. N/Y
2. N/Y 6. Y/Y
Genetic Testing (R1): expensive, used in a
3. N/Y 7. Y/Y
response to potential or existing illness, based
on a cutting-edge science, used to prevent and 4. Y/Y 8. Y/Y
treat, provides information about the body,
3, page 79
results are difficult to interpret and can be
easily misinterpreted, results may involve family 1. If she hadn’t chosen the correct treatment
members plan, she might not have felt better.
Both: new technique, medical choice, does not 2. If Kristen Powers hadn’t always wanted all
have to involve a doctor, is becoming part of the information available, she wouldn’t have
standard medical care chosen to be genetically tested.
Laughter Therapy (R2): little cost, used in response 3. If Norman Cousins hadn’t read The Stress
to existing illness, based on Cousins’ reading of Life, he wouldn’t have had ideas about
about mind-body interaction, used as treatment the mind-body connection when he was
only, changes body chemistry, results are easy to diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis.
interpret, results involve the patient only 4. If Norman Cousins hadn’t tried to cure himself
by using Laughter Therapy, he wouldn’t have
REVIEW, page 75 made a complete recovery.
1. revolutionize 8. consult 5. If David Agus hadn’t found out that he
2. advocates 9. linked was at risk for cardiovascular disease, his
3. potential 10. environment children wouldn’t have made him change
4. risk factors 11. interaction his diet.
5. impact 12. consensus 6. If Kristen’s mom hadn’t contacted her
6. skeptical 13. alternative biological father, she might not have learned
7. reliable 14. conventional that Huntington’s disease ran in their family.
7. If Cousins had been satisfied with his doctor’s
EXPAND treatment plan, he wouldn’t have developed
his own Laughter Therapy treatment.
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1. S 6. S 11. S PREPARE TO WRITE, page 81
2. D 7. D 12. D
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
3. D 8. S 13. S
Change lifestyle
4. D 9. S 14. S
Consider different treatments
5. S 10. D 15. S

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PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS III. Conclusion

Positive test results may cause feelings of doom
Restate the Thesis: If we, as a society, truly believe
that genetic testing has more benefits than
MISINTERPRETATION OF RESULTS
negative effects, it is our responsibility to
Without consultation with doctor, patient may
regulate it, so all testing includes counseling
make incorrect decisions
and interpretation by professionals.
WRITE Final Thought/Wrap Up: Remember, the key is
that to truly be able to make the best medical
1, page 82
choices, medical professionals need to be
Answers may vary. Suggested answers: involved in any decision.
Three Parts of an Essay Notes
REVISE
I. Introduction I. Background
Information: 2, page 84
Thesis Statement: Grandparents suffering Check: 1, 3, 6, 7
From this personal from Huntington’s
perspective, I believe disease
that home genetic Well educated with
testing should be much master’s degree in
more strictly regulated, biology
if not prohibited all
together.
II. Body Paragraph 1 II. Body Paragraph 1
Support/Evidence:
Topic: Devastating Coworker’s experience
effects of home - Without professional
genetic testing interpretation led to
feelings of impending
tragedy
- Retesting by doctor
led to correct
medication and
lifestyle changes
Body Paragraph 2 Body Paragraph 2
Support / Evidence:
Topic: Genetic test - Genetic testing is in
results are not its infancy and even
infallible nor definitive professionals don’t
understand interaction
between genes
- False positives
- False negatives
- Environmental factors
are not taken into
account

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